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> Completely backwards - the fun in the job should be to solve problems and come up with solutions.

You don't need to be a software engineer to do that.

Except you kind of do -- understanding data structures, understanding software engineering concepts, all of the things that you learn as a good engineer, those are ways that you help guide the LLM in its work.

I don't think kids are learning those things in 2026, they just ask an LLM.

Someone posted on here the other day about how they were taking a non-credit writing class in college so as to improve their writing, that was the reason the course existed. 90% of the class was kicked out because they were using LLMs to write for them, when the entire purpose of the class was to improve ones own writing.

Why do you think it will be any different with programming?

> Except you kind of do -- understanding data structures, understanding software engineering concepts, all of the things that you learn as a good engineer,

How do you learn that without programming?

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